Sentence examples for congress are held from inspiring English sources

Less than 9% of seats in the lower house of Congress are held by women.

Republicans in Congress are held in particularly low esteem.

Only 17% of the seats in Congress are held by women.

Under Mississippi law, special elections for Congress are held without primaries.

Coffman has been in Washington since 2008 and has witnessed government shutdowns under divided government but not one where the White House and both chambers of Congress are held by the same party.

The armed mediation of Austria induced Napoleon to agree to an armistice, during which a congress was held at Prague.

In response, an extraordinary party congress was held in August 2015, and Le Pen was formally expelled from the National Front.

Still, the mood in the conference room where the congress was held bordered on the euphoric at times.

For several years Czechs had been attracted by the Pan-Slav movement, and in July 1908 a Pan-Slav congress was held in Prague (see Pan-Slavism).

If the congress were held in Egypt or Jordan, the authorities there could have undue influence over who attended and what was concluded.

Every four years a congress is held by the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses, a body that is maintained by the transport ministries of its member countries and by groups representing the highway-construction industry.